Wordsworth's Poetical Works

To a butterfly

A briefly on the memories which the poet recalls in stanza three

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The speaker says they are a "historian" at heart and the butterfly has the ability to bring back images of times long ago.

Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:

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